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The Day .@RailaOdinga a former Kenyan Prime minister Dressed Like A Woman To Avoid Arrest
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Necessity is of the mother of invention. When you are in trouble, that is when your creative powers are high. You would do things that would leave you in stitches when you later come to think of them.
Former Kenyan Prime Minister, Raila Odinga, is perhaps the right person who understands this better. He was once forced to dress like a woman to avoid being arrested by Moi' s government.
Sad Story Of How An African Warrior's Dead Body Was Paraded As Wild Animal In Europe
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With a spear in his right hand and a shield in his left, bending slightly forward, and his shoulders raised, the Negro of Banyoles was half-naked with just a raffia decoration and a coarse orange loincloth, an African warrior displayed at a European museum as a wild animal.
In 1831, Jules Verreaux, a French dealer, traveled to South Africa, where he witnessed the burial of a Tswana warrior in the African interior. Later that night, Verreaux returned to the grave and dug up the body.
He stole the corpse’s skin, skull, and a few bones.
He stole the corpse’s skin, skull, and a few bones.
Meet The Man Who Killed Many People Than Adolf Hitler
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Whenever we hear about wicked people in history, we often think about Adolf Hitler, Saddam Hussein, Idi Amin and the rest.
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Whenever we hear about wicked people in history, we often think about Adolf Hitler, Saddam Hussein, Idi Amin and the rest.
But there is this man who was wicked than Adolf Hitler but he is not well known. Meet King Leopold II. He was born on April 9, 1835. He was a devil in human form and the most racist in human history. He succeeded his father to the Belgian throne in 1865 and
reigned for 44 years until his death. He was the founder and owner of the Congo free state " independent state of the Congo, it was a large state in Central Africa from 1885 to 1908
Despite Being A Dictator, Ever Wondered Why Amin Dada Was Known For His Smile Face
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Amin Dada turned into recognized for his smile, however navy dictator Idi Amin Dada dominated Uganda with an iron fist for 8 lengthy years. Those who celebrated the general' s army coup that overthrew President Milton Obote in 1971 had no
concept how violent and tyrannical the subsequent decade might be. By the quit of his rule, Amin had ordered the killings of an expected 300, 000 human beings (a few estimates peg the variety as excessive as 500, 000) out of a populace of 12 million.
